After gathering the Spark Award eventually month’s IndieWire Honors, Chris Sanders now has additional purpose for celebration as his sci-fi journey “The Wild Robotic,” produced by Dreamworks Animation, has gone on to obtain probably the most recognition from ASIFA-Hollywood this yr, incomes 10 Annie Award nominations, together with within the class of Greatest Characteristic and Greatest Route. No different movie got here near this quantity, although “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” from Aardman and Netflix and “Inside Out 2” from Pixar Animation have been closest with 7 nominations every. “That Christmas” from Locksmith Animation and Netflix additionally fared fairly nicely, eking out 6 nominations, together with in main classes like Greatest Characteristic.
The 52nd Annual Annie Awards might be held at UCLA’s Royce Corridor on February 8, 2025 at 7:00 pm PT. Along with “The Wild Robotic,” “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” “Inside Out 2,” and “That Christmas,” others competing for the title of Greatest Characteristic are “Ultraman: Rising,” offered by Netflix in affiliation with Tsuburaya Productions, and “Kung Fu Panda 4” from Dreamworks Animation.
Following a shipwrecked robotic compelled to adapt to her pure environment and assist different survive within the course of, “The Wild Robotic” has additionally been nominated for Greatest Animated Characteristic on the upcoming Golden Globe Awards, in addition to the Critics’ Selection Film Awards. In commenting on why the movie resonates for therefore many at IndieWire Honors final month, Sanders stated, “One of many causes the movie works the way in which it does is due to the way in which it appears, and each body is hand-painted. It’s carried out by hand, and that’s that type of analog heat I haven’t actually been in a position to see because the hand-drawn days of ‘Lion King’ and ‘Lilo & Sew,’ however we have been in a position to deliver that again.”
“The Wild Robotic” faces stiff competitors nevertheless because the no-dialogue fantasy journey “Circulation,” hailing from Latvia and Sacrebleu Productions, Take 5, and Dream Nicely Studio, has already gone on to obtain the Greatest Animated Characteristic award from each the New York Movie Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation, in addition to the Nationwide Board of Evaluation and the European Movie Awards. It’s equally nominated at each the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Selection Film Awards and has obtained three nominations from the Annie Awards as nicely for Greatest Characteristic — Impartial, Greatest Route, and Greatest Writing.
TV nominations within the mature class embrace “Bob’s Burgers” (twentieth Tv Animation), “Photo voltaic Opposites” (twentieth Tv Animation) “South Park” (MTV Leisure Studios), “The Nice North” (twentieth Tv Animation), and “The Second Greatest Hospital within the Galaxy” (Amazon MGM Studios, Titmouse Studios); in restricted sequence, the nominees embrace “Dream Productions” (Pixar Animation Studios), “Iwájú” (Walt Disney Animation Studios), “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy” (Lucasfilm Ltd.), “Moon Woman’s Lab” (Disney Tv Studios, Disney Branded Tv), and “My Adventures with Superman” (Warner Bros. Animation).
Lastly, the next have additionally obtained the Juried Awards: The Winsor McCay Awards will go to “Magnificence and the Beast” and “Aladdin” animator Aaron Blaise, Academy-Award successful British animator Eunice Macaulay, receiving posthumous recognition, and Canadian composer, sound designer, and sound editor Normand Roger. This yr’s June Foray Award will collectively be awarded to Girls in Animation, whereas the Ub Iwerks Award will go Alberto Menache for his work in visible results. Lastly, Don Peri and Pete Physician will obtain the Particular Achievement Award for his or her work on the historic novel “Directing at Disney: The Unique Administrators of Walt’s Animated Movies.”
Maintain studying for a partial checklist of the Annie nominations:
BEST FEATURE
“Inside Out 2”
“Kung Fu Panda 4”
“That Christmas”
“The Wild Robotic”
“Ultraman: Rising”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
BEST FEATURE — INDEPENDENT
“Rooster for Linda!”
“Circulation”
“Kensuke’s Kingdom”
“Look Again”
“Mars Categorical”
“Memoir of a Snail”
BEST SHORT SUBJECT
“Lovely Males”
“Within the Shadow of the Cypress”
“Ruthless Blade”
“The Swineherd”
“Wander to Marvel”
BEST FX — FEATURE
“Kung Fu Panda 4”
“Moana 2”
“The Wild Robotic”
“Ultraman: Rising”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION — FEATURE
“Inside Out 2”
“Kung Fu Panda 4”
“Moana 2”
“The Wild Robotic”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION — LIVE ACTION
“Higher Man”
“Gladiator II”
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”
“Home of the Dragon Season 2”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
BEST DIRECTION — FEATURE
“Rooster for Linda!” — Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
“Circulation” — Gints Zilbalodis
“That Christmas” — Simon Otto
“The Wild Robotic” — Chris Sanders
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
BEST MUSIC — FEATURE
“Kensuke’s Kingdom” — Stuart Hancock
“Piece by Piece” — Pharrell Williams, Michael Andrews
“That Christmas” — John Powell, Ed Sheeran, Johnny McDaid
“The Wild Robotic” — Kris Bowers
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — Lorne Balfe, Julian Nott
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN — FEATURE
“Inside Out 2” — Jason Deamer, Josh West, Keiko Murayama, Invoice Zahn, Laura Meyer
“That Christmas” — Justin Hutchinson-Chatburn, Mike Redman
“The Wild Robotic” — Raymond Zibach, Ritchie Sacilioc
“Ultraman: Rising” — The Ultraman: Rising Manufacturing Design Staff
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — Matt Perry, Darren Dubicki, Richard Edmunds, Matt Sanders, Gavin Traces
BEST STORYBOARDING — FEATURE
“Despicable Me 4” — Habib Louati
“Moana 2” — Ryan Inexperienced
“Saving Bikini Backside: The Sandy Cheeks Film” — Piero Piluso
“Spellbound” — Alex Relloso Horna, Carlos Zapater Oliva
“That Christmas” — Ashley Boddy, Lorenzo Fresta, Helen Schroeder
BEST VOICE ACTING — FEATURE
Mélinée Leclerc as Linda in “Rooster for Linda!”
Maya Hawke as Anxiousness in “Inside Out 2”
Lupita Nyong’o as Roz in “The Wild Robotic”
Package Connor as Brightbill in “The Wild Robotic”
Brian Tyree Henry as D-16 / Megatron in “Transformers One”
BEST WRITING — FEATURE
“Circulation” — Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža
“Inside Out 2” — Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein
“Kensuke’s Kingdom” — Frank Cottrell-Boyce
“Memoir of a Snail” — Adam Elliot
BEST EDITORIAL — FEATURE
“Inside Out 2” — Maurissa Horwitz, David Suther, Fiona Toth, Jonathan Vargo
“Moana 2” — Jeremy Milton, Michael Louis Hill
“The Wild Robotic” — Mary Blee, Collin Erker, Orlando Duenas, Lucie Lyon, Brian Parker
“Ultraman: Rising” — Bret Marnell, ACE, William Max Steinberg, Nik Siefke, Ryan Sommer, Kaye Speare
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” – Dan Hembery
